I'm actually mostly worried about the future of Mojo at this time.
Though hopefully it will be fully released open source still, but I feel there are question marks around whether it will be a priority to continue to develop by Qualcomm, or if they are mainly interested in the AI compute stack?
Time will tell I guess, but a lot feels to be up in the air.
indeed, open sourcing is only half (or even less) of the picture: who is driving the open source community and how it is driven (i.e. governing structure) are probably more important IMHO. There are countless of cases where an open source project is either killed by slow death, or dictated by a single entity. Chris's previous projects like LLVM and MLIR are fortunate enough to grow and thrive organically, and that takes years if not decades to cultivate
Maybe Chris was a little unhappy about where Mojo ended up, and sees this as an opportunity to start anew on a properly designed language from scratch :D
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No, this was pure speculation based on what seems like a popular view on where Mojo ended up, where the initial Python-focus don't seem to help it that much anymore.
But they changed their goal from being a python superset to pythonish language with great python interoperability. The only other thing they could've done differently is making the language not look like python superficially. I think chris achieved his goal of creating a language which takes full advantage of MLIR and also not repeating some of the mistakes made with swift's development.
I'm sorry, I read your message slightly wrong. Okay, makes sense to me.
Which is interesting given the Mojo blogs where they shit on the other pythonic eDSLs like Triton saying that it's a dead end
They've said that Mojo is still on track to be open-sourced this year, post-acquisition.
According to their website, yes it will be opensourced soon